New Zealand doubles player Marcus Daniell has made a brilliant start to the prestigious ATP Masters 1000 tournament at Indian Wells, the BNP Paribas Open.
Daniell and his Argentine partner Diego Schwartzman have won through to the second round 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 over German Philip Kohlschreiber and Frenchman Lucas Pouille.
Daniell was the only doubles specialist on the court and he played superbly throughout the 1 hr 13 min encounter.
Playing with Schwartzman for the first time, they took a while to get going and were broken twice in the first set which Pouille and Kohlschreiber took in 34 minutes.
But the Kiwi and Argentine stepped it up in the second set and broke their opponents serve twice to take it 6-2 and force a deciding match tie break.